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Rudolph C. Rÿser

Rudolph Ryser is descendant from Oneida and Cree relatives and lived his early life in Taidnapum culture. He is Chairperson of the Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS), a research, …
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Yvonne Sherwood

Yvonne Sherwood is a member of the Yakama Nation. She is a doctoral student at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the Department of Sociology (with an emphasis in …
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Janna Lafferty

Janna Lafferty is descendant from the Irish and Northumbrians. She holds a Master's degree in Religions from Duke University. She is a doctoral student in the Department for Global and …
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Eric A. Stanley

Eric A. Stanley is the author of Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable. They organize and teach in the Bay Area.
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Jasmine Syedullah

Jasmine Syedullah is a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Riverside. Her current book project, No Selves to Defend: Fugitive Justice and Black Feminist Loopholes of Abolition, …
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Kevin B. Anderson

Kevin B. Anderson teaches at UC-Santa Barbara and is the author of Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism and of Marx at the Margins.
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Allan Lichtenstein

Allan Lichtenstein, a contributing writer to Jewish Currents, has a Ph.D. in urban planning from Rutgers University and has been working in the field of poverty research for nine …
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Gerald L. Durley

Reverend Gerald L. Durley is pastor emeritus of GA-based Providence Missionary Baptist Church.
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Cody Cain

Cody Cain is a writer and commentator living in New York City, and he writes a blog for The Huffington Post at https://www.huffingtonpost.com/cody-cain/.